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There are times in life when our minds become a broken record. A single thought, a memory or a feeling may be playing on loop like background noise that never stops. We try to distract ourselves, we try to reason with it, we even tell it, “It’s okay,” as if that phrase will carry enough magic to blend it into silence.
Sometimes, we seek comfort not always from people, but from something that feels like a balm. Sometimes, I find in people and sometimes in AI. It helped me name what I was feeling. It nodded along. It said the right things. Moreover, validation. And for a day or two (depending upon the problem), I felt better. Like a cool cloth on a fevered head. A bit of ease, a bit of space.
But on the fourth day, I didn’t want ease. I didn’t want another layer of warm, soft words rubbed onto the same old scar. I wanted something to give it to me straight. What’s working, what’s not, what’s keeping us stuck.
And that’s when it clicked. Maybe it’s all subjective. Maybe we each have our own rhythm. Mine was three days of comfort, then a day of truth. Someone else’s might be different.
Even that rhythm can shift depending on the weight of the problem. If something’s light, maybe one day of comfort and one day of truth is enough. But if it’s something heavier, something we need to process/accept slowly, we might need more time before we’re ready for honesty. That too is subjective.
If we don’t know our cycle yet, we can try setting a deadline. And if that one doesn’t work, set another. And another. But we have to be careful. Let’s not make a habit out of breaking them. At some point, we need to keep one. Make it the one we commit to. Because discipline isn’t about pressure it’s about clarity.
Today, I came across a tweet that made me pause. It said something I was feeling, something that felt relevant. Some agreed and some denied. Subjective again. Maybe that’s the point! We have to figure out what resonates to us, what shifts something in us and when.
The loop doesn’t always break on its own! We have to!
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